-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 If you are not booting from the GPT disk, you don't need the EFI partition (or any special boot partition). The required backup FAT is usually put at the end where there is usually some free space anyway. It has been a long time since I've converted from MBR to GPT, but it didn't require any resizing that I remember. I'd test it in a VM or similar to make sure you understand the process. You will also have to manually add the Ceph Journal UUID to the partition after the conversion for it to all work automatically. - ---------------- Robert LeBlanc PGP Fingerprint 79A2 9CA4 6CC4 45DD A904 C70E E654 3BB2 FA62 B9F1 On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 9:00 PM, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 12/01/16 01:22, Stillwell, Bryan wrote: >>> Well, it seems I spoke to soon. Not sure what logic the udev rules use >>> >to identify ceph journals, but it doesn't seem to pick up on the >>> >journals in our case as after a reboot, those partitions are owned by >>> >root:disk with permissions 0660. > >> This is handled by the UUIDs of the GPT partitions, and since you're using >> MS-DOS partition tables it won't work correctly. I would recommend switching to >> GPT partition tables if you can. > > I'm not comfortable with switching from MS-DOS to GPT disklabels on a > running production server, and nothing in the Ceph docs at the time > mentioned that GPT was a requirement on the journal disks. > > Switching to GPT isn't toggling an option, it'd require resizing > partitions (some of these are xfs; can't be shrunk to my knowledge) and > moving stuff around to allow for an additional EFI boot partition, > possibly changes to boot firmware settings and bootloaders too. > > I'll look into a udev rule for our particular case and see how I go. > -- > _ ___ Stuart Longland - Systems Engineer > \ /|_) | T: +61 7 3535 9619 > \/ | \ | 38b Douglas Street F: +61 7 3535 9699 > SYSTEMS Milton QLD 4064 http://www.vrt.com.au > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Mailvelope v1.3.3 Comment: https://www.mailvelope.com wsFcBAEBCAAQBQJWmUrVCRDmVDuy+mK58QAA4VkQAIttGy8fn8zqrSNGnykb A/FI2WjObejmDREjRc3DVFqrBOL7faSyTvf636N/y0TYF1J5VLJu1Zf4C/2R aCxm4lDzxvRWnWW935GFtZ9YCwzA9KyR10DJJf1TaQW7nq1a+UYPTiTX9kk6 fnA9X7AICpLDrxNX+/2sYfZAASDBQjslW4qFIJ5CW5JhRVi8CggnUF5wPvf1 R3r7u/tlGJEU3pktTnSix8mzBjJSKpOiHFNikkrj/Md6+pNVgmAfpvA7cj3R gkazGxL5TiqdwQQ0OVusv18VrL9Vir4tyA0BOam95DEQ8QaZ4PodRQsj5RUd KD+MjpIbj1OtRriVrTUrlTtLuMq26g8yVlR6HttwFIMkANUu0kso1p2C3NzF 1ETjx+JpcX+Zn/o3gx4AgYC/YJ97y4LRIdTfJR/3P1UnZnkGsyOadFqi6qTC l6mgzhjURxLUTu7XOnJn28aJ0Ql+gH1HuFUojskiahppE+B5K9KMAVZjbDAN j7aOspD9oZydu20XkwDD6jnKRmC82tYk58A5PMdYfN9tbgItmlwg51NGV0Tk n8EoW6mT8zfK3aOqBYSDsmymyL8b6vB/uK05pJz+w9ut1SozaOWmKRPiGifN JvOeROVCpoF8FoW6J0GJTbRMYIhvxew4VMe3hjxy2OyCXxkay4bINY2kPllD mOnH =8a8l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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